Announcing PsionWiki

[Chris Cooper]

[Apologies for accidentally duplicating this message in the netBook forum - CC]

Hello,

I've just created PsionWiki, which aims to link to, and add to, all the information that's out there on matters Psion. It went public a few days ago.

I'm sure everyone here knows that a wiki is a Website that can be easily edited by authorized users. PsionWiki is located at

http://psionwiki.wikidot.com

Anyone can browse PsionWiki. But to edit pages, you will first need to register with WikiDot (which is quick and free) by following the link from http://psionwiki.wikidot.com/ Then you will need to register with PsionWiki itself, using the password

Psionist

I see PsionWiki as an organized one-stop location for:

- Links to everything Psion-related on the Web that users think useful. That includes classic repositories like pscience5 and 3-Lib, as well as hoary old tips, advice and experience scattered through individual sites, forums and mailing lists, such as the Digest and PDAStreet. But there's also a constant supply of relevant new information that can be targeted - mostly about adapting Psions to the modern world, often about the best successor devices.

- Content, continually revised and extended by other users. This might be filched from other sites, or it can be original information, written directly into the wiki.

The present content of PsionWiki is minute. It still contains only a fraction even of my own puny Psion knowledge. It's also inconsistent and patchy, largely because I don't yet know much about the bells and whistles of Wikidot, the software that runs it. Your contributions will bulk it out and iron out inconsistencies.

Hope to see you there.

Chris

[Colin Messer]

Well done! I'm sure the PsionWiki will prove most useful.

There are resources that would benefit from being brought into a central wiki. Diem's EPOC FAQ is a good example of an excellent abandoned resource. True to his word, Yan has kept the EPOC FAQ on-line. It hasn't been updated for years and how long can we expect it to remain available?

I look forward to contributing to the wiki over the coming months.

Thanks
Colin

[Chris Cooper]

Thanks for the kind words, Colin.

At the moment, PsionWiki is mostly a bunch of links. But yes, I see one of the jobs of a wiki as being to preserve material that otherwise might vanish. But how to do that with a major site that's full of content? Have people copy items piecemeal? Or, if the site owner is available and willing, copy the site in some way? I don't know much about this.

Chris

[Jonas]

Just created a new site
http://psionwiki.wikidot.com/linux-on-netbook

How can I put the site under a category?

Greets, Jonas

[Chris Cooper]

This is a terrific contribution, Jonas - thanks.

I've put a link to the new page from another place in the wiki - I'm assuming this is what you mean by putting it under a category (you'd already added tags).

I've actually responded to you in PsionWiki's forum. Queries are best handled there or by PM to me - I guess they won't mean much to folk on PsionPlace.

That's a fantastic Psion site of yours!

Thanks again

[Jonas]

Very glad that it is a welcomed contribution!
I'll add some other articles from my site to the wiki soon as it gets the best attention there.
Thanks for creating that wiki, by the way, it was a very good idea!

Greets, Jonas